Article October 9, 1902 Issue

Unselfishness

ANNE DODGE.

Jesus said, "This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends," and Saint John has said, "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."

Unselfish love stooped to lift the cross upon its own shoulders, bearing the world's hatred and ridicule all the way to the summit of Calvary,—"despising the shame." Jesus, sublime in his simplicity and meekness, endured the cross of misrepresentation and misapprehension without a murmur, rejoicing in the knowledge that he was to prove the powerlessness of hatred and malice.

What does unselfishness mean? Simply this: to lay down one's life for one's friends and the brethren, which we cannot fail to do if we love God and humanity; to take up our cross cheerfully, gladly, and courageously, following Christ; to heal the sick as he healed them; joyfully to lay down, each day, a sense of life in matter, and prove that Life is God, divine Love, full of infinite blessings, healing and saving those who receive it.

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